Soccer Quotes

We need to forget about mistakes and take the positives.

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

We didn't underestimate them. They were just a lot better than we thought.

I played basketball and soccer my freshman year in high school.

The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back

Don't visualize beating the keeper, visualize destroying the keeper.

Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl,except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.

Home advantage gives you an advantage

Well we got nine and you can't score more than that

I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I'm from Wisconsin, and I love snowboarding, hiking, yoga and soccer.

I'm puttin' pressure on you kids like I'm a soccer mom.

The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers!

That's great, tell him he's Pele and get him back on.

My heroes were always soccer players.

The goal was scored a little bit by the hand of God, another bit by the head of Maradona.

With United, we'd all grown up together, we all wanted to win the biggest trophy in football. We did it togther.

The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

I’ve always said that you can live without water for many days, but you can’t live for a second without hope.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

Winning doesn't really matter as long as you win

I don't know whether I prefer Astroturf to grass. I never smoked Astroturf.

Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

To me, life without soccer would be like living a mindless and empty life.

Considerable research on successful soccer players and their developmental history, affirms that a good percentage of them have spent time in isolation, working on soccer skills.

I've never played for a draw in my life.

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock.

Never go for a 50-50 ball unless you're 80-20 sure of winning it.

You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.

I'd give all the champagne I've ever drunk to be playing alongside him in a big European match at Old Trafford.

That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seemed to hang in the air for even longer.

Soccer isn't the same as Bach or Buddhism. But it is often more deeply felt than religion, and just as much a part of the community's fabric, a repository of traditions.

All I can say is, hey, if you have fun doing what you do, if you have fun playing soccer, the creativity is just going to come as time goes on.

I'm as happy as I can be-but I have been happier.

Football is a game played with arms, legs and shoulders but mostly from the neck up.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

It's headed away by John Clark, using his head.

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel.

He's six-foot two, brave as a lion, strong as an ox and quick as lightning. If he was good looking, you'd say he has everything.

I was always taught as a kid if you do something, do it right. If not, go do something else. For me, soccer was life.

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.